Terrible were the brutalised jailers, whose occupation is to torment their brothers, and who were certain that they were fulfilling an important and useful duty; but most terrible of all seemed this sickly, elderly, kind-hearted inspector, who was obliged to part mother and son, father and daughter, who were just the same sort of people as he and his own children.
"Resurrection"
Maude, Louise Shanks
"Or removing," Rogozhinsky went on, persistently, "the perverted and brutalised persons that threaten society."
"Resurrection"
Maude, Louise Shanks
So brutalised had the people become by continual war, that no notice was taken of this occurrence until eight years afterwards, when Cato, the Censor, brought up the charge, with a variety of others, more or less weighty, against Flaminius, and caused his expulsion from the Senate.
"The Comic History of Rome"
Gilbert Abbott Becket